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Comment · 14 days ago
Whats your setup? If I may ask
Comment · 2 months ago
One of my favourite tweets, which unfortunately I can't find again was:

"My ethics teacher has gotten his sons girlfriend pregnant. I think about this often"

Reply: "To be fair, you have to be really good a ethics to get away with that"

Comment · 2 months ago
I think of it like so:

All the great people in history who would be regarded as ethical never took an ethics course.

Its hard to know whether an ethics course makes people behave ethically, but its clearly not a necessary requirement to ethical behaviour

Comment · 4 months ago
I'm also loving their phrase "on a nonlinear battlefield"

... not sure what a linear battlefield would be

Comment · 4 months ago
I lived in Germany for seven years and by the end I was fluent. B1 is a very low bar to pass, I know because I've done it.

Sorry to say, but the rule is fair. If you want to be a permanent resident, put in a little bit of effort to integrate into the country that you would like to call home.

Comment · 5 months ago
I had a flipped classroom for my topology lecture. It was one of my absolute favorites.

We had no lectures, the teacher just gave us a short, concise textbook to read a chapter of every week.

In class time was devoted to discussing and problem solving.

But yes, it only worked because we were a small class of 15 math students

Comment · 9 months ago
I say this with the best of intentions: that cynicism of yours will keep you lonely
Comment · 11 months ago
Very interesting article.

This makes me wonder: Would it be possible to implement an equivalent to Shor's algorithm on a p-computer. Maybe the quantumness isn't necessary at all

Comment · 1 year ago
I think there is some room for debate here about the political bias of wikipedia, and there is some evidence to suggest a left wing bias.

However this article is pretty venomous and the author doesn't even make an attempt at masking their disdain for the other side. It's not written in good faith.

I'd prefer if someone shared a more cool-headed article on the subject

Comment · 1 year ago
you're not, the proof is a famous error known as zenos paradox. Its only an apparent paradox, and indeed it's been disproven by observing that things do in fact move
Comment · 1 year ago
very clear and detailed answer. thankyou very much
Comment · 1 year ago
To their credit, the paper is unexpectedly fun.

I'm not understanding the "separation power" thing, what does that imply?

Comment · 1 year ago
If chat control gets passed it will also be a law, passed by legislation.

The point is that laws can be unjust.

Comment · 1 year ago
May or may not be true but it's completely unrelated to tech, science or startups.

This should be moderated

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